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Recent Examples of stealthiness
But what surprised me most about these curls was the stealthiness of the burn.
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Taylor Tobin,
Southern Living,
1 Oct. 2025
Giljov’s stealthiness paid off with a stunning image of two male saigas going horn to horn on the banks of a lake during a competitive breeding season.
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Popular Science Team,
Popular Science,
15 Aug. 2025
Taylor Tobin,
Southern Living,
1 Oct. 2025
Giljov’s stealthiness paid off with a stunning image of two male saigas going horn to horn on the banks of a lake during a competitive breeding season.
—
Popular Science Team,
Popular Science,
15 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stealthiness
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Substance abuse is greatly detrimental in its own right, of course, but sometimes the issues that stem from it—stress, emotional exhaustion, secrecy, avoidance—can have similarly devastating long-term effects on a person’s wellbeing.
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The agreement releases all survivors from any prior nondisclosure agreements and forbids any future such secrecy agreements, and prohibits any adult-to-minor digital communications in the archdiocese.
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In The Executioners, and the 1962 and 1991 film adaptations of that novel, Cady is a predator specifically of women — even more specifically, young women — and he’s known for this, more so than his sneakiness, cleverness, or time served.
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Anything that prices it more often, more independently and more granularly works against the smoothness.
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Marketing claims about smoothness, energy, and mood are starting points for evaluation, not endpoints.
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The harp is not an instrument of slyness, wryness, or the earth.
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Like the tricksters of myth, there’s depth to their slyness.
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Ron’s crusade against corporate shadiness (and shoddiness) never generates much suspense.
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Björck is renowned for his hockey sense, shiftiness and offensive skill.
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This data can include in-game speed and shiftiness, the angle of a player's arm when throwing a ball, and the impact on a play.
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Cerúndolo went out in the first round at Wimbledon, and analyst Gill Gross suggested that the slipperiness of the grass may have been a factor.
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In the following chapters of Quand j’étais photographe, Nadar plays on the rhetorical and material slipperiness of invention to craft a curious portrait of photography’s first fifty-odd years.
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Instead, Franklin will rise by virtue of hard work and (actual) shrewdness.
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Humble but strong, philosophical but pragmatic, Kingsley's interpretation of the leader manages to balance both his spirituality and shrewdness, simultaneously demystifying an icon while also adding another layer to the legend.
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“Stealthiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stealthiness. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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